“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.”
“Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.”
“We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.”
“While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.”
“The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.”
“While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.Cyril Connolly (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)”